Meet our team
Erik Hauters
CEO & FOUNDER
The inspirer of TinkerList, Erik Hauters, has over 15 years of experience as a television director of talk-, music-, panel-, and gameshows. His first-hand observations of editors’, directors’ and producers’ frustrations gave way to TinkerList, an online unified platform to support creative television makers. Check out Erik’s blog for his portfolio and interesting reads on directing and TV creation.
Time and time again, I saw writers and producers copy paste content, and waste their energy on tedious jobs. As a director, I was left with scripts that were not the most recent version, videos in the wrong codecs, and images that were dispersed all over the place. So I envisioned one environment, in which all participants of the editorial team (editors, copywriters, graphic designers,…) and the production crew (director, producer, technical operators,..) can collaboratively create and adapt content during all stages of the television production process.
Management
Kurt Victoor
CCO & Co-founder
Kurt is our ever enthusiastic sales director and business guru. Kurt studied industrial design and worked several years as a designer until he was ready for his own adventures. He moved to France and started his own architectural firm from scratch. For 5 years he was CEO, leading a creative team and taking care of the business development. In 2015 he joined forces with Erik in order to bring TinkerList to the international scene.
Vero Vanden Abeele
UX Director & Co-founder
Vero has been teaching and practicing the art of User Experience design, for over 15 years, as a professor of human‐computer interaction at the University of Leuven (Belgium). She is an expert on the field of usability and user interfaces. As Erik’s sparring -and real life- partner she ensures that UX is no mere gimmick, but remains at the forefront of TinkerList. Vero watches over our team of designers and developers and sees to it that the user always comes first.
Brendan Clare
Freelance CFO
Brendan is our finance geek taking care of all matters related to finance, legal and operations. He’s been part of the TinkerList journey from the very start. First as a business coach under imec.istart, then as a freelancer advisor and now as our full-time CFO. Brendan is passionate about innovation and addicted to numbers. In his free time, he loves to wine and dine with family and friends. Always up for a ball game challenge!
Sales & Marketing
Aaron Nuytemans
Business Development Manager
Aaron is crazy about the customer: always on the look-out for a win-win. As our Business Development Manager, he combines 7+ years of sales & marketing experience and an MBA, in order to help us grow in the right direction. He’s a game-show nut, a book-lover and a TV-addict. Favourite quiz: University Challenge.
Charlotte de Roey
Customer Happiness & HR Manager
Charlie is responsible of onboarding, training and taking care of TinkerList users, from the start until the celebration of a successful production. She’s also supporting the team by recruiting new colleagues, saying ‘yes’ to every holiday request and spreading random happiness at TinkerList as HR manager. On weekends, she’s probably travelling or cuddling her plants.
Glenn Elaut
Customer Happiness Specialist
Glenn is a Customer Happiness Specialist with more than 10 years of experience in various customer service related roles. He’s always ready to help and can do this in multiple languages. He is always on the look for a perfect solution and ways to improve existing situations. A passion for travel and new adventures got him to discover multiple countries over the past few years. In his free time he likes paddle boarding and working in his vegetable garden.
Andrew Rogers
Sales Development Representative
Andrew has been in sales for almost 5 years with a background in customer service, starting out in an electrical retailer in Ireland. Moved from Ireland to Amsterdam in 2019 when he was 20 years old. He’s a huge football fan, watching and playing since he was a kid.
Pawel Banhegyi
Head of Growth
Pawel started his career as a scientist but after discovering the world of marketing, he sold his soul to the Growth Devil. Since 2012, he’s worked in user research and data-driven growth with around 200 companies in the world. He’s often on the move, living in different European countries, learning foreign languages (5 and counting), and making sure decision making is based on data rather than gut feeling.
Rosanne Coetsier
Digital Content Creator
Rosie is our creative centipede. Being a photographer, interviewer and podcaster on the side, she’s responsible for the digital storytelling of TinkerList. From cooking up social media posts, to writing catchy copy’s and articles, to taking aesthetic pictures and making funky videos, Rosie has it all!
Jeroen Keulemans
Business developer & account manager
Jeroen has been in broadcasting and television production since 1996 and still loves the thrill of live broadcasts. Having helped broadcasters create new tv formats and producing over 2,000 shows, he is all about making the tv production process more efficient. As a business developer and account manager, he helps customers find the perfect solutions for their problems. And to make their lives less about boring repetitive tasks, and more about creativity and creating the best content for their audiences.
Camille Comblin
Customer Happiness
In her work experience, Camille has always been focused on the customer’s wellbeing. She is always on board to welcome new customers and help in any way she can. Her main focus is the happiness of our loyal customers. Passionate about human sciences, she loves to put herself in other people’s shoes to understand them even better. Favourite hobbies? Hiking with her two lovely dogs and reading every book that she can put her hands on.
Katrien Maes
Administration hero
Katrien is an enthusiastic freelancer from Leuven. After 18 years in a salaried post, she needed a change of scenery and decided to work as a freelancer in 2018. For TinkerList, she makes sure our partners and stakeholders get their paycheck in time, organizes business trips, manages the business purchases,… A true administration hero!
Diego Aguiar
SDR – Sales Development Representative
As a former professional basketball player, Diego is a dedicated team player with proven leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills. His follow-through and positive attitude will allow him to achieve clients’ targets and goals. He’s also addicted to sneakers and basically likes to play and watch any sport.
Research & Development
Márcio de Sousa
Lead Software Engineer
Márcio is our software engineer hero with a background in web applications and telecommunications. He is passionate about front-end work, but he won’t turn his back at the the back-end side of things either. His current interests are mobile applications and full Javascript architectures.
Stijn de Moffarts
Product Manager
Stijn is based in Leuven but has lived in Bangkok for 3 years. As our product manager, Stijn oversees the development of the new platform and makes sure the development team works in an ‘agile’ iterative way. He’s the bridge between the business stakeholders, UX designers and the development team.
Argyro Moraiti
Lead UI/UX Designer
Argyro is a UI/UX designer educated as an HCI engineer. Her mission is to create intuitive user experiences, drawing on results from user research and workflow analysis. Argyro values the importance of a comprehensive design system, with established design patterns. On her free time, loves to spend time with her family and son, and is up for any creative activity.
Moe Hachem
Product UI/UX Designer
Moe is an architect turned UX designer, specialized in creating meaningful designs and experiences tailored for humans (mostly). His multidisciplinary background and coding know-how allow him to communicate effectively and coordinate with different teams. In his free time, Moe is a guitarist, painter, and a student of languages.
Gregori Maus
Senior Backend developer
Brazilian and happy by nature, Gregori has been working for almost a decade as a backend developer, and during this time his love for development has been growing more and more. Although always in search for new technologies and better ways to do what he does, he never leaved aside the PHP language, the apple of his eyes.
Adriano dos Santos
Senior Backend Developer
Adriano started his career as a full-stack developer in 2009, where he followed and grew along with the internet and its technologies, working on several projects in the most varied areas. Brazilian, Portuguese by adoption, christian, married, drummer, lover of animal life, lives 99% of life with jokes and humor and is passionate about humanitarian causes around the world.
Gabriel Maus
Frontend developer
Gabriel is a frontend developer that worked most of his professional time as a full-stack developer and always searches for the most adequate and durable solution when facing an issue, he believes that communication is the key for good teamwork. A Brazilian who loves music, sports and the culture of his hometown.
Sebastiaan Jansen
Frontend Developer / Automation Engineer
“Because why not” – is the sentence that Sebastiaan utters often as a reason for trying new things, which lead him to all kinds of places in the broadcasting industry since he started working in 2017. In the broadcasting industry, Sebastiaan worked mostly as an R&D engineer working on full-stack solutions using all kinds of languages, but mostly JavaScript.
If missing, you can always find Sebastiaan somewhere near a 3D printer or lasercutter making another unnecessary trinket.
Carlos Melero Vilches
Frontend Developer
Carlos is a frontend developer that loves creating visual interfaces and thinking about how final users may interact with them. In his personal life, he’s tried many different hobbies, but the ones that stick the most are sports, playing video games and cooking.
He also listens a lot to Japanese music, so if you’re looking for an unusual topic of conversation with him, that may be the one.
Dóra Vinczi
Frontend developer
Dóra used to work in HR but found her passion in frontend development for over 5 years now. She loves problem-solving, writing clean and efficient code and being part of a great team.
Dóra lives in the Hungarian capital Budapest and spends most of her free time with creative projects like portrait drawing or block-printing while listening to indie rock music non-stop.
Funding Partners
TinkerList has indirectly received funding from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme through the STADIEM project (Grant Agreement 957321).
STADIEM with its piloting and acceleration programme, brings together start-ups, scale-ups, investors and media organisations.
Smart Hub – Vlaams Brabant Hub
Smart Hub Flemish Brabant stimulates innovation, promotes cooperation between companies and knowledge institutions and attracts (foreign) investments, in the 5 innovative clusters of the Flemish Brabant knowledge region.
Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship is the contact point for entrepreneurs in Flanders. Vlaio encourages and supports innovation and entrepreneurship, and contributes to a favourable business climate. By being a one-stop-shop, Vlaio builds a bridge towards stronger entrepreneurship.
Partners
Limecraft is a Belgian company specialising in media production technologies. Their focus is finding new ways of collaboration to enable producers to explore new distribution venues and creative opportunities.
DzjinTonik is a leading partner for IT business solutions in the audio-visual industry. They specialise in the Process and Project Management of TV production.
Spott is a European start-up working on transforming the way users interact with video and TV content. They work in introducing the next generation of video commerce.
Scriptease gives you a full autocue service. So not only the devices but also people to operate the devices. You can count on Scriptease for the support of your speaker, from the preparation till the final show. We work closely together for our Autoscript integration.
Studio Begonia is a company that specialises in prompting and studio floor managers. They have a network of freelancers with the best people in their profession. They don’t only work for television but also concerts, events and congresses. We work closely together for our Autoscript integration.
EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and playout of sport, news and TV programs in both live and near live environements.
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